Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire Building

Richard Drinnon

University of Oklahoma Press, 1997 - Social Science - 572 pages

American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Pacific, and beyond to the Phillippines and Vietnam. He cites parrallels between the slaughter of bison on the Great Plains and the defoliation of Vietnam and notes similarities in the language of aggression used in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.

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One of the finest examinations of US mass psychology involving the invasion of indigenous peoples' territories. Although Drinnon begins in the US, his analysis extends into US imperialism into the ...

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important, but under-appreciated book!

Contents

• PART: 1
• PART: 63
• PART THREE: 117
• Robert Montgomery Bird: 147
• Colonel McKenney: 165
• Judge Hall: 191
• PART FOUR Civilizers and Conquerors: 217
• Mary Austin: 219
• The Manifest Destiny of John Fiske: 232
• Henry Adams: 243
• The Open Door of John Hay: 255
• Professor Worcester: 279
• Marked Severities in the Philippines: 307
• To and Beyond the Louisiana Purchase Exposition: 333
• PART FIVE Children of Light: 353
• From the Bay Colony to Indochina: 355
• The Ugly American: 374
• Edward Geary Lansdale: 380
• Covert Savior of the Philippines: 389
• Indochina: 402
• The Quiet American: 414
• The New Frontier: 429
• The Problem of the West: 443
• NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY: 469
• INDEX: 553

About the author

Richard Drinnon is Professor Emeritus of History at Bucknell University and the author of White Savage: The Case of John Dunn Hunter and Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism , among other books.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire Building
• Author: Richard Drinnon
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997
• ISBN: 080612928X, 9780806129280
• Length: 572 pages
• Subjects: History / Native American; History / United States / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies